- Voting ends October 15, 2003. I expect to have it available a week or two after that.

- The Calendar will be available for purchase from our CafePress Store for $16.99.

- CafePress handles the money, printing, and shipping.

- Proceeds ($2 per calendar) will be sent directly to Goosemoose to help pay for our administrative costs. Keep in mind, there is a "volume bonus," so if we sell enough of them, they give us extra money.

I'm curious....After the selections are made and the calendar goes to press and all of that good stuff, will we be told who the rats belong to? I mean, a few are pretty obvious, but some of those pictures are of rats that I'd never seen before. Will credit be given where credit is due?

Yes, editing will take place before the photos get uploaded to the calendar. Some photos aren't exactly the right size, so they may need to have a border added, date stamps need to be taken out, etc.

I assume the photographer will get credit for his/her work, but to keep the voting from becoming a popularity contest, Suebee is keeping names off of the photos now. In fact, she won't even tell the other Mods who the photos belong to! Even when I poke her with my pointy stick....

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kmwRFC Moderator

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them." - P.J. O'Rourke

Thanks, kmw, for fielding the first few. Yep, I didn't work all my "magic" on the photos yet (though I have for some). Date stamps will be removed, colors corrected, etc.

Credit will be given to the photographers on each photo on the printed calendar, including the rats' names, the name of their guardian, and where they live.

kmw is right... I am keeping the identities of the photographers and names of rats secret for now, for a reason -- I want people to pick their favorite photo, not their favorite rat or board member.

If sales are good or bad, we will probably do it again next year.

One vote per username. If another member of the household wants to vote, they need to register for the forum themselves.

If I find people creating extra usernames, though, so they themselves can vote more than once, they will not only lose ALL their votes, but they may also lose access to the forum permanently. We don't allow multiple usernames per person.

pinkrat

I have been lurking around this forum for a while, but just joined today.I wanted to say that I dont think its fair that some of Suebee's pix get to be included in the ones we are voting for in this calender. I mean of course she thinks that they are cute. She took them!! I think she should have saved places for other peoples rat pix instead of putting her own in there. but, thats just my opinion and like i said, i really dont think its fair.

I am a member of this community as well, and I am actually NOT voting, while the rest of the people who's images are included are voting. Why should I not be allowed to participate?

Sorry if you feel that is unfair.

And thank you for breaking the guidelines I set asking people to not reveal ANY of the photographers, period, so as not to skew any of the voting. Some people were not actually NOT aware that any of my photos were included, and there was no need to reveal that, regardless of my status on this forum.

And for crying out loud, Suebee is putting this all together for us!! How dare you say it's not fair for her rats to be included. For all the time and effort she's put into this I'd say she deserves her rats on the front of the calendar! Geez, some people...

SADCAT--That's exactly what I think too. She's put so much hard work in to the calendar, that if she wanted to reserve a couple spots in there for her rats, then there would be no problem with that. Or, like you said, the front cover!!!

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Owned by a pit bull named Alize, 3 rats named Pearl, Ruby & Sapphire, and a 3 year old little boy named Lane.

Yes, this is true. But it was admitted to me by someone on my own staff that they did not know any of the pics were mine.

I still don't understand why this is even an issue. Who honestly cares?

If you don't like it, don't vote for me, or don't buy one. Honestly, I don't care. I want the best pictures to win, and want to raise money to support forum costs. My meager contributions are only TWO of 48 entries -- and MANY MANY of them are far superior to mine. Let the best photos win. Period.

Edit: For the record, ratsrule.com and goosemoose.com/rfc are not the same. ratsrule.com is my own site, that I run myself. This site is run by Goosemoose.